how add a translate button on my website
After a bit of tinkering I kinda felt obligated to solve the puzzle! You can skip to the good part by checking out the jsfiddle: (it works as of now but knowing google it might not tomorrow)
Lets begin:
First google translate is loaded and adds a listener for a select box it adds to the DOM after you call the right element but we need that change event to call a change for a select box we're going to clone from the original one to get google to update the translation, this gets a bit messy as we over take the prototype (which is usually bad practice)
Start by adding your header element:
<div id="google_translate_element"></div>Then we add our footer element<div id="google_translate_element2"></div>
Next we pull in the google translator
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
Now we get to the good part:
<script type="text/javascript">
// store google translate's change event
trackChange = null;
pageDelayed = 3000;
// overwrite prototype to snoop, reset after we find it (keep this right before translate init)
Element.prototype._addEventListener = Element.prototype.addEventListener;
Element.prototype.addEventListener = function(a,b,c) {
reset = false;
// filter out first change event
if (a == 'change'){
trackChange = b;
reset = true;
}
if(c==undefined)
c=false;
this._addEventListener(a,b,c);
if(!this.eventListenerList)
this.eventListenerList = {};
if(!this.eventListenerList[a])
this.eventListenerList[a] = [];
this.eventListenerList[a].push({listener:b,useCapture:c});
if (reset){
Element.prototype.addEventListener = Element.prototype._addEventListener;
}
};
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element');
let first = $('#google_translate_element');
let second = $('#google_translate_element2');
let nowChanging = false;
// we need to let it load, since it'll be in footer a small delay shouldn't be a problem
setTimeout(function(){
select = first.find('select');
// lets clone the translate select
second.html(first.clone());
second.find('select').val(select.val());
// add our own event change
first.find('select').on('change', function(event){
if (nowChanging == false){
second.find('select').val($(this).val());
}
return true;
});
second.find('select').on('change', function(event){
if (nowChanging){
return;
}
nowChanging = true;
first.find('select').val($(this).val());
trackChange();
// give this some timeout incase changing events try to hit each other
setTimeout(function(){
nowChanging = false;
}, 1000);
});
}, pageDelayed);
}
</script>
After a bit of tinkering I kinda felt obligated to solve the puzzle! You can skip to the good part by checking out the jsfiddle: (it works as of now but knowing google it might not tomorrow)
http://jsfiddle.net/melfy/15zr6ov0/
Lets begin:
First google translate is loaded and adds a listener for a select box it adds to the DOM after you call the right element but we need that change event to call a change for a select box we're going to clone from the original one to get google to update the translation, this gets a bit messy as we over take the prototype (which is usually bad practice)
Start by adding your header element:
<div id="google_translate_element"></div>
Then we add our footer element:
<div id="google_translate_element2"></div>
Next we pull in the google translator
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
Now we get to the good part:
<script type="text/javascript">
// store google translate's change event
trackChange = null;
pageDelayed = 3000;
// overwrite prototype to snoop, reset after we find it (keep this right before translate init)
Element.prototype._addEventListener = Element.prototype.addEventListener;
Element.prototype.addEventListener = function(a,b,c) {
reset = false;
// filter out first change event
if (a == 'change'){
trackChange = b;
reset = true;
}
if(c==undefined)
c=false;
this._addEventListener(a,b,c);
if(!this.eventListenerList)
this.eventListenerList = {};
if(!this.eventListenerList[a])
this.eventListenerList[a] = [];
this.eventListenerList[a].push({listener:b,useCapture:c});
if (reset){
Element.prototype.addEventListener = Element.prototype._addEventListener;
}
};
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element');
let first = $('#google_translate_element');
let second = $('#google_translate_element2');
let nowChanging = false;
// we need to let it load, since it'll be in footer a small delay shouldn't be a problem
setTimeout(function(){
select = first.find('select');
// lets clone the translate select
second.html(first.clone());
second.find('select').val(select.val());
// add our own event change
first.find('select').on('change', function(event){
if (nowChanging == false){
second.find('select').val($(this).val());
}
return true;
});
second.find('select').on('change', function(event){
if (nowChanging){
return;
}
nowChanging = true;
first.find('select').val($(this).val());
trackChange();
// give this some timeout incase changing events try to hit each other
setTimeout(function(){
nowChanging = false;
}, 1000);
});
}, pageDelayed);
}
</script>
You can change the pageDelayed variable to trigger quicker or slower but if it's in your footer, bumping it up to delay longer may help it work more efficiently depending on your page load
http://jsfiddle.net/melfy/15zr6ov0/
